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> Asians are probably eating less GMO soy

I may be out of the loop here, but why do you say that? Are Asians particularly more GMO-averse than Americans?

I say that based on the two data points I quoted with sources. Presumably 'more than half' is less than 95 percent in most cases.

You're probably right. I just wasn't sure that production and consumption of GMO soy would be so neatly linked like that, because so much of that soy is going to livestock.

Yeah, the lack of certainty of a conclusion is why the word "probably" is in that sentence. It's a qualifier. It indicates I don't actually know for certain and this is guess work. (The guess work preceded the googling up of hand-wavy numbers. It's an internet discussion, not a defense of a PhD dissertation.)

I didn't suggest otherwise.

Sorry, my 17 year old high school self seems to be alive and well, after all these years. (Insert jokes about my dotage.)

Yes

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